Charles Bovary, après avoir suivi ses études dans un lycée de province, s'établit comme officier de santé et se marie à une riche veuve. À la mort de celle-ci, Charles épouse une jeune femme, Emma Rouault,...
À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs est le second tome d'À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust publié en 1919 chez Gallimard. Il reçoit la même année le prix Goncourt.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in...
The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted...
The Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of...
The tale bristles with breathless adventure, mistaken identities, detective investigations, romantic developments, and startling situations... It is a rousing story, told with a stimulating style, and culminating...
Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts of the phantasmal...